Daffnet,
I started this chain a while ago and I want to thank everyone that supplied information. It was all good information that can be used, and I do appreciate it. Most of the replies came back to me direct. I did send some “follow-up” questions and got the specific answers that I wanted.
I finished my digging of daffodil bulbs for the year on June 5th and found that many of them had already had their foliage disappear which made it hard to find, much less to dig. This was my second dig in our new place in NC, and I was disappointed in the lack of propagation in the sand. In Maryland, I always got a good increase when I grew in the “Red Clay.”
However, my original question was to see if daffodils would survive a long summer (early June until late October or November) and the answer was a resounding yes. Specific follow-up questions was about miniature and small bulbs surviving the long summer. Most of the answers and advise I received on the small bulbs was that in theory they should do okay, but in practice, you get better results if you pot them back up and set the pots in the shade for the summer.
I might try that as I cure and store my bulbs outside under cover, therefore they are exposed to the humidity and heat but the chances of the air stirring are good. My daffodil holders are screen wire so that the daffodils can get air on both the top and the bottom. I’ve had good luck with this approach with standard bulbs, but I have a few miniature bulbs that I dug this year, including one that I registered.
Now the learning curve begins.
Clay Higgins